150218 - Costa Rica, Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG), Volcan Cacao, 1500 m
A very dry and hot day on the top of Volcan Cacao. No rain at all and very nearly no cloud either. This GigaPan 42x13 taken using the lower resolution 10MB Canon as the G12 has gone kaput. Today I found Mutillidae here (not so common) ...

140828 - Costa Rica, Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG), Volcan Cacao, 1500 m, salt
10.92273 -85.45858 1475 No rain on the drive up - very still and dry all morning. I could hear cicadas and howler monkeys. The GigaPan PBD error was extreme today. Some Gnamptogenys and Pachycondyla observed in the traps.
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140827 - Costa Rica, Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG), Santa Rosa, 0300 m salt
10.85196 -85.60676 293 Hot, dry and still day in the Bosque Humedo. Re-did the HH2 soil readings since it had rained a little the afternoon previous - leaf litter was moist, but the soil didn't appear to be much more so - although t...

140825 - Costa Rica, Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG), Volcan Cacao, 007 m, salt
10.77716 -85.6617 15 "Today was hot and dry (initially) but the rain did come down later in the day.
140825 - Naranjo 15m
Once the traps were in the ground I downloaded the temperature and rain data for the site - no problems her...

140824 - Costa Rica, Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG), Volcan Cacao, 0700 m salt
10.8989 -85.46715 723 A hot and dry day working at 700m on Volcan Cacao. Toledo birds and cicadas throughout. Many Wasmannia here - a couple of videos below of a colony disturbed on the leaf litter. A Solenopsis colony in a tiny...

140823 - Costa Rica, Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG), Volcan Cacao, 1300 m, salt day
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10.93024 -85.46157 1305 Wet while hiking in and setting up - but then dry for the rest of the day. Sunny and then nearly still. Pecarries on the trapline (video), Had to shew them away. Spent a long time w...

140820 - Costa Rica, Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG), Volcan Cacao, 1500 m
Cacao 1500 10.9328 -85.45751 1475 Rain in Santa Rosa overnight, but dry on the walk up and throughout the majority of the day. One brief period of light rain for 15min. Army ant swarm at ~1400m (video). More Cyphomyrmex than I remembe...